I'll be speaking at the Healthcare IT Senate in Hyderabad
The website is www.healthcaresenate.com
Why PGS does not work as advertised - the difference between genes and chromosomes
Lots of patients know that the commonest cause for IVF failure is a failure of the embryo to implant. We also know that the commonest reason for implantation failure is a genetic defect in the embryo. This is why it seems very tempting to do pre-implantation genetic scr...
Please don't mess with your doctor's mind ever
Doctors do their best in order to take good care of their patients because they want their patients to get well. It's in his best interests to do so, because a happy patient will refer lots of others to the doctor, and thus help his practice to grow.However , in this da...
I'll be talking about Startup Failures at the Vibrant Gujarat Startup Summit
The Vibrant Gujarat Startup Summit will be held in Ahmedabad on 21 Oct 2016 Am looking forward to this - lots of great topics ! The website is http://www.vgstartup.com/
Do you trust your doctor ?
The heart of clinical medicine is the doctor-patient relationship. When we are ill, we want someone we can look up to - someone whom we can trust. We want a doctor who understands our problems - not just the medical disease we have, but someone who has insights into our...
Hallmarks of a bad IVF clinic
A patient just sent me this emailNow in September, I underwent IVF with donor eggs (frozen). Out of 7 donor eggs that were thawed, we got 2 embryos and 1 blastocyst (all A grade 8 cell embryos) which were transferred on day 3 and day 5 respectively. My endometrial lin...
Non medical options for infertile patients
Whenever I counsel patients , I explain all their possible options to them. I also include their non-medical choices, and emphasize that adoption and child free living are perfectly acceptable alternatives, which they should not reject out of hand.I always discuss the...
Breakings the pharma doctor nexus by following the money
It's an open fact that many pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of money in bribing doctors to prescribe their particular brands. They have got a good return on their investment so far , because these gifts have been proven to influence the doctor's prescription behavi...
IVF success story at Malpani Infertility Clinics
As busy and happy professionals my husband and myself felt the desire to grow our family much later in our married life, about 2 years ago, after I quit working. After trying to conceive naturally we decided to explore IVF as an option. There were two main hurdles, fir...
The angry IVF patients
Every IVF clinic has their share of unhappy patients. Patients get upset for many reasons. Their cycle may have failed ; or the treatment is costing much more than they thought they would; or they feel that the doctor's not paying enough attention to them; or that the...